Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-18
THE NEW SCHOOL BILL.
Continued from second page.

4 state superintendent; SAID register suolt
be open to the inspection OF al parents
school officers and other persons VINO
NAV be interested to examine the same.
All teachers shall make term reports st
the end of the schools and monthly re-
ports on such subjects as may be desls-
mated by the state super
intendent or county superintendent,
to be approved by majority OF the rus
tees of the district, and shall file the same
with the county superintendent when they
present their vouchers for their months
salaries, and until such reports are MADE
| the trustees shall not approve vouchers
Tor last months salaries land until they are
returned to and approved by county su-
perintendents, county superintendent
| shall not approve their vouchers Tor SAL
| ary, nor shall the county treasurer pay
same All monthly and term reports
shall be made under oata, and county su-
perintendents are hereby empowered to
administer oath for such purposes.
Sec. 50. 1t shall be the duty OF all
teachers IN thu public schools of this
state TO attend q summer normal lnstl-
tute as Jar as possible.
Sec 80 ScncOl trustees Shall deter
mine how many schools snail be maln-
tanned in their respective school districts,
and ii what points they shall be located;
they shall determine when the school
shall be opened and when CT Used; they
shall contract with teachers and manage
and supervise subject to the rules and
regulations Of the county suPerntende
and state superintendent. They shall ap-
prove al teachers vouchers and all other
claims against the school fund OF their
districts; provided, that trustees OF dis
tricts in making contracts with teachers
snail not create deficiency debt against
the district.
Sec. "a. Trustees of districts that levy
school tax shall make contracts with
teachers to teach the public schools OF
their respective districts for period Of
not less than six months in scholas-
tic year, which time may be divided
into two terms or rot as may be directed
by the board Of trustees, but the compen-
sation to teachers under written contract
with trustees shsll be approved by the
county superintendent before the school
is taught, stating that the teacher will
teach each school for the time and money
specified in the contract, and that he will
employ the numOer of competent assist
ants necessary wnen the number Of chill
dren in the district shall exceeS fifty, and
all children within the scholastic age who
have settled in such district since the
scholastic census was taken shall be en-
titled TO receive all the benefits of the
schools of such district, and in such
districts the trustees shall have the right
to increase the salaries of teachers and
the scholastic age. and may also have the
schools taught longer than SIX months if
it is deemed advisable.
Sec. So. All the public schools in this
state shall be required TO have taught in
them orthOgrapny, reading in English,
penmanship, arithmetic, English gram
mar, modern geography and compoS ton
aud other branches as may be agreed on
by the trustees, or directed by the state
superintendent.
Sec. Sc. Ali examinations for teachers
certificates not otherwise provided for
shall be conducted by the county superin-
teudent under such rules as may be pre-
scribed by the stale superintendent. He
may summon to his aid two teachers, res
ldent in his county, holding first grade
certificates. He shall keep record OF all
certificates issued or authenticated, and
all other certificates and diplomas of
teachers giving the name, age, st X, color
and nativity of the person, the date, grade
and length of time of each certificate.
When teacher removes from one county
to another, before leaving such county
he or she shall obtain from the county
superintendent, duly certified to and eu-
thenticated by his official signature,
certificate showing that the certificate
granted to him or her as teacher, has
not been cancelled, and no teacher who
removes to another county and fails to
OBTAIN such certificate shall be competent
to contract with the school trustees IN
less he be re-eXamined, nor shall any per-
son holding such certificate be competent
to contract with the trustees unless his
certificate as teacher he authenticated by
the county superintendent of the county
in which he proposes to teach. The su-
perinteEdent Of public instruction may
grant, under his hand and seal of office, g
certificate Of qualification to teach, and
may revoke the same. While
uurevoked, such certificate shall
be conclusive evidence thst the
person to whom it was granted is quail
fed by moral character, learning and
ability to tesca in any common school in
the STATE. Such certificate shall be grant
ed by him only upon rigid examination
De Shall determine the manner in which
such examination shall be conducted, and
may designate proper persons t0 conduct
the same, and report the result TO hin.
He may sppoint also times and places for
holding such examinations, at least once
in each year, and cause due Office there
of to be given. Such certificate shall he
known as state certificate, and shall be
valid unless revoked during life.
Sec 81. The trustees of school dis
tricts shall have the manage entand con
troll of the public schools uuder the direc-
ton of the state superintendent they shall
have power to employ and dismiss teach
ers, but in case of dismissal, teachers shall
have the right of appeal 20 the county
superintendent and state superintendent.
Sec. 5S. The trustees Of schools shall
have the power to admit scholars over or
under scholastic eye, either in or out of
the district, On such terms as they may
deem proper and Just, and they may sus-
pend from the privileges Of schools any
pupil found guilty of ncorrigible conduct,
but such suspension shall not extend be-
yOnd the current term OF the school, but
pupils so suspended shall not be admitted
into any other pubic school during the |
term OF suspension.
Sec. SO. Comfy superintendent and all |
school officers, except teachers, shall |
take oaths to faithfully and impartially